Hospital Business Week

Finance - Kaiser Foundation reports 2005 total revenues of $31.1 billion up from $28 billion in 2004

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia - Researchers publish new studies and findings in the area of breast cancer therapy

Haukeland University, Bergen - Asthma risk is increased by hormone replacement therapy and overweight

Healthcare Costs - U.S. forecasters predict health spending will reach $4 trillion in 10 years

Information Technology - GetWellNetwork signs twelve new agreements with U.S. hospitals

Information Technology - HealthTrans reports high volume of Part D claims

Kings College London - Prescriptions for headache almost twice as likely in middle-aged women as men

Lund University - Elderly patients' attitude toward remission induction influenced survival

Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital - Research in cancer therapy provides new insights

Auckland City Hospital - Coronary bifurcation strategies using drug-eluting stents are bench-tested

Bayer Landesamt Gesundheit & Lebensmittels -  Salmonella enteritidis nursing home outbreak caused by contaminated pudding

Bristol Royal Hospital for Children - Significant numbers of obese children have associated comorbidities

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London - Pharmacogenomics predicts clinical efficacy of HIV and cancer therapy

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh - Rapid angiogenesis sustains islet transplant survival in diabetes models

Collaborations - Medicare-initiated quality improvement program spawns six-state surgical care collaboration

Compliance - EH&E launches support solution to help hospitals prepare for unannounced surveys

Dr. Josip Bencevic General Hospital, Slavonski Brod - Extra-familial exposure source of TB infection in children in north-eastern Croatia

Elisabethinen Hospital, Linz - Tumor cell detection in blood and bone marrow should not influence therapy

Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam - Cardiovascular data imaging gains improved technique for center lumen line definition

Ersta Hospital, Stockholm - Patients with Crohn colitis may have increased biliary concentrations of bilirubin

Flinders Medical Center, Bedford Park - New findings in the area of obesity therapy described

George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC - Revision hip replacement with trabecular metal acetabular cup effective

Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem - Immune regulation of disease-associated antigens is promising in NASH therapy